A learner-by-example might want to look at the examples section first.
Help her out by supplying some section headings: PATTERN FORMAT for
the format of lines in an excludes file and EXAMPLES for the two
examples.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git's diff machinery has supported a -s (silence diff output) option
as far back as v0.99~900 (Silent flag for show-diff, 2005-04-13), but
the option is only advertised in an odd corner of the git diff-tree
manual.
The main use is to retrieve basic metadata about a commit:
git show -s rev
Explain this in the 'git log' manual and provide an example in the
'git show' examples section. This is kind of a cop-out, since it
would be more useful to explain it in the 'git show' manual proper,
which says:
The command takes options applicable to the git
diff-tree command to control how the changes the
commit introduces are shown.
This manual page describes only the most frequently
used options.
Fixing that is a larger task for another day.
Reported-by: Will Hall <will@gnatter.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit c84de70 (excluded_1(): support exclude files in index -
2009-08-20) tries to work around the fact that there is no
directory/file information in index entries, therefore
EXC_FLAG_MUSTBEDIR match would fail.
Unfortunately the workaround is flawed. This fixes it.
Reported-by: Thomas Rinderknecht <thomasr@sailguy.org>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Inside an element of an enumerated list, the second and subsequent
paragraphs need to lose their indent and have to be strung together with a
line with a single '+' on it instead. Otherwise the lines below are shown
in typewriter face, which just looks wrong.
Signed-off-by: Nathan W. Panike <nathan.panike@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* sn/doc-opt-notation:
Fix {update,checkout}-index usage strings
Put a space between `<' and argument in pack-objects usage string
Remove stray quotes in --pretty and --format documentation
Use parentheses and `...' where appropriate
Fix odd markup in --diff-filter documentation
Use angles for placeholders consistently
Move the similarity and dissimilarity index header description closer to
where those extended headers are described.
Describe and/or clarify the format used for file modes, pathnames, and
the index header.
Document that all "old" files refer to the state before applying the
*entire* output, and all "new" files refer to the state thereafter.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-show-ref really does not do what one would expect under the name
pattern matching, so describe it.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change push.default's description to add hyphens between values and
descriptions to make the manpage easier to read. The html version is
readable either way.
Change status.showUntrackedFiles to make item descriptions be
sentences and to use the same asciidoc format as push.default. The
only visual change is the additions of "."
Signed-off-by: Cliff Frey <cliff@meraki.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current script used by annotate-tests.sh (used by t8001 and t8002) fails
to emit a warning if any of the expected authors never show up in the output
or if authors that show up in the output were never specified as expected.
Update the script to fail in both of these scenarios.
Helped-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The real problem is that maintainers often pick random - and not at
> all stable - points for their development to begin with. They just
> pick some random "this is where Linus -git tree is today", and do
> their development on top of that. THAT is the problem - they are
> unaware that there's some nasty bug in that version.
Maybe they do this because they read it in the Git user-manual.
Fix the manual to give them better guidance.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Originally "--no-index" mode triggered for untracked files within the
tracked tree, but with v1.5.6-rc1~41 (Merge branch 'jc/diff-no-no-index,
2008-05-26) the command was fixed to only implicitly trigger when paths
outside the tracked tree are mentioned.
Reported-by: Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Point in many directions in the hope of helping the reader find what
is needed more quickly.
This commit also removes the summary attached to the SEE ALSO entry
for difftool, to avoid making the SEE ALSO list too verbose. If the
reader wants a summary of the commands referred to, she can always
look to the top of the named pages or to the table of contents on the
main git(1) page.
Suggested-by: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Meanwhile, there is no plumbing command to compare two blobs.
Strange.
Reported-by: Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix references to gitrevisions(1) in the manual pages and HTML
documentation.
In practice, this will not matter much unless someone tries to use a
hard copy of the git reference manual.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Group entries related to parameter substitutions together and avoid
using the word "regexp" to refer to the ${parameter/pattern/string}
substitution (banned), as the pattern there is a shell glob and not
a regular expression.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The explanatory comment before the definition of ALLOC_GROW carefully
lists arguments that will be used more than once and thus cannot have
side-effects; a lazy reader might conclude that the arguments not
listed are used only once and side effects safe.
Correct it to list all three arguments, avoiding this confusion.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `<file>' argument is optional in both cases (the man pages are
already correct).
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This makes it cosistent with other places (including the
git-pack-objects(1) manpage itself) and avoids possible confusion (I,
for one, mistook `<object-list' for a `<object-list>' typo at first when
preparing this series).
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Quotes (for emphasis) are used in option explanations, not the
headings.
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove some stray usage of other bracket types and asterisks for the
same purpose.
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of using the regex-like bracket expression, use grouping to make
it more consistent with other similar places. The brackets now have the
same meaning as in other documentation (i.e., the argument is optional).
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
Mentored-and-Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document the meanings of the tags "Reported-by:", "Acked-by:",
"Reviewed-by:" and "Tested-by:" clearly. Also mention that the user is
free to use any custom tags.
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Liked-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some people in #linux-rt noticed that describing what "--mirror" option does
with "it mirrors" is way insufficient.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Darren 'Some People' Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Cc: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed integer overflow is not defined in C, so do not depend on it.
This fixes a problem with GCC 4.4.0 and -O3 where the optimizer would
consider "consumed_bytes > consumed_bytes + bytes" as a constant
expression, and never execute the die()-call.
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are buggy implementations of S_ISxxx(m) macros on some platforms
(e.g. NetBSD). The issue is that NetBSD doesn't take care to wrap its
macro arguments in parentheses, so on Linux and sane systems we have
S_ISREG(m) defined as something like:
(((m) & S_IFMT) == S_IFREG)
But on NetBSD:
((m & _S_IFMT) == _S_IFREG)
Since a caller in builtin/diff.c called our macro as `S_IFREG | 0644'
this bug introduced a logic error on NetBSD, since the precedence of
bit-wise & is higher than | in C.
[jc: took change description from Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason's patch]
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The ctype functions isspace(), isalnum(), et al take an integer
argument representing an unsigned character, or -1 for EOF. On
platforms with a signed char, it is unsafe to pass a char to them
without casting it to unsigned char first.
Most of git is already shielded against this by the ctype
implementation in git-compat-util.h, but xdiff, which uses libc
ctype.h, ought to be fixed.
Noticed-by: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents-Montreal.ORG>
Reported-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The buffer used to construct paths like ".git/objects/info" and
".git/objects/pack" is allocated on the heap and never freed.
So free it. While at it, factor out the relevant code into its own
function and rename the sha1_dir variable to object_directory (to
match the change in everyday usage after the renaming of
SHA1_FILE_DIRECTORY in v0.99~603^2~7, 2005).
Noticed by valgrind while setting up tests (in test-lib).
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If setup_git_env() is run before the usual repository discovery
sequence and .git is a file with the text
gitdir: <path>
(with <path> any string) then the in-core git_dir variable is set to
the result of converting <path> to an absolute path using
make_absolute_path().
Unfortunately make_absolute_path() returns its result in a static
buffer that is overwritten by later calls. Such a call could cause
later accesses to git_dir (from git_pathdup(), for example) to read
the wrong path, leaving git very confused.
It is not obvious whether any existing code in git will trigger the
problem, but in any case, it is worth a few dozen bytes to copy the
return value from make_absolute_path() for some added peace of mind.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After v1.6.0-rc0~230^2^ (environment.c: remove unused function,
2008-06-19), git_refs_dir is not used any more.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The result of git_getpass() is used without checking for NULL, so let's
just die() instead of returning NULL.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of
... normal test script ...
status=$?
... cleanup ...
(exit $status)
set up cleanup commands with test_when_finished. This makes the
test script a little shorter, and more importantly, it ensures errors
during cleanup are reported.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it clearer that --parents resp. --children list the parent resp.
child commits next to each commit, so that I understand next time.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On case insensitive filesystems, "tags" and "TAGS" target will try to
overwrite the same file. Allow MinGW to use "ETAGS" instead.
These two targets do produce real files; do not put them on .PHONY target
list.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The option argument is either after the equal sign in --output=... or in
the next command-line argument. optarg is the reliable way to access it.
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the anchor name to
Finding-commits-With-given-Content
so that it corresponds to the actual content there.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since we use a-b-c for mywork commits in one place, I think it would be
logical to also use a-b-c too in other illustration on this topic.
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch simplifies Brian's fix for the recent regression by:
* eliminating the extra loop
* eliminating use of git rev-parse for parsing flags
* making use of the for opt idiom for the retained loop
* eliminating the redundant -- case
The patch has been tested with the tests in current maint.
Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>